Improvement in corn-planters



WILLIAM MoRI'iIsoN, or` CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent N0.'113^,550, dated April 11, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN CQRN-PLANTERS.

The Schedule referred 'to in these Letters Patent and makingr parl: ofthe same.

To all 'whom 'it may concern.-

Beit known that I, WILLIAM MORRISON, of Garlisle, Cumberland county,Pennsylvania, have invented a. new and useful Improvement inCorn-Planters; and I do hereby declare that the following is' a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of thisspecication, which is a bisectonal view of the invention.

The nature of my invention consists in the insertion of the piece ofIndia rubber z z in the top of the brush 'm m for the purpose ofpressing downward the clearer w.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

The brush m m is madeA double and placed in the middle ofthe hopper, andsecured to the slide u n and bottom of theihopper by four screws, s s ss, passing through spiral springs o o'o o. l

The corn is carried under the brush m m by the slide n n, and fallsthrough the spout o in the usual manner. A,

The clearer fw is to prevent the grains from sticking,

in the holes x :t ofthe slide, and is lfixed in the under side of thebrush-frame.

The said clearer is suspended on two wires t t, placed crosswise, andisl pressed downward by the India-rubber piece z z, so that, as theslide n n is moved back and forth, the pointed end of the clearer w is-forced into the holes :n x and` presses out the grain, which' mightotherwise remain in them.

All the remaining portions of thexnachine to which this invention isintended to apply are made in the usual manner, and particularly asdescribed in the Letters Patent granted to your petitioneron -the 13thSeptember, A. D. 1859, and numbered 25,435.

-What I particularly claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is j4Ihe India-rubber piece zz, in the top ofthe brush m m, pressingdownwardupon the clearer w in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

' WM. MORRISON. Witnesses:

DAVID SMITH, F. E. BELTzHoovER.

